Rhyming Scheme - 1st Stanza, final two lines Exact rhyme 'bore,' 'before?'
2nd and 3rd Stanza, final two lines slant rhyme 'grown,' 'stone - ' 'Snow - -' 'go - ' (As the speaker move closer to the 'Hour of Lead')

Devices -

Metaphor 'The Feet, mechanical' 'the Hour of Lead'
Simile 'like Tombs - - ' 'like a stone' - causes the reader to assoicate the object being described with the simile, eg the Nerves are then associated with attending a funeral service
Aliteration - 'Formal feeling' Creates a more calm and relaxed feeling to the Formal Feeling
Assonance - 'round - - Of Ground,' Slows and merges the words together, emphasizing the purposeless movement
Personification 'The Nerves sit' 'The stiff Heart questions' - Parts of the body are used synecdonchally for the persons mind, each is given an individual existance and mind and feelings of its own
Dashes - Slow the pace, forcing the reader to slow - emphasis the meaningless movement, lack of all feeling and then the freezing to death

Mood - Calm, formal, controlled, detached, contained, stiff,

Setting - Internal,

Characters - Physical body parts (Nerves, Heart, Feet)

Messages - After a great emotional pain the greatest feeling you will experience is the lack of all feeling, numbness, stiffness

Themes - Pain, Death of positive emotions/all feeling (simile's and analogies of death), Possible association with Religion

	Created by katie.browell over 10 years ago

Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes - - (341)